Invisible Inkling

Ryan Sholin on the future of newspapers, online news and journalism education.

All About social-bookmarking

A framework for networked journalism

Jay Rosen lays all his cards on the table, posting his plans for NewAssignment.net, a to-be-constructed site where reporters and The People Formerly Known As The Audience can party together.
And by “party together,” I mean the masses can use all their social bookmarking/tagging/networking power to point to the stories they want to see covered more [...]

Jeff Jarvis shows old media the Digg effect

In his column in the Guardian, Jeff Jarvis does his “scary blogboy dance” (his words, not mine - but I do identify) for the CUNY J-School faculty, including a number on Digg, the social bookmarking site that makes Slashdot look like a quaint relic dug up from the vaults of Usenet.
Jarvis says:
The concept behind Digg [...]